Photo: President Obama and former President Bush at the WTC Memorial, 9-11-11

Uplifted nose, vs. head bowed.

"very illustrative of something", commenter happyfeet says, followed by "It’s Teh Won waiting for God to kiss him directly on the lips."  Which is, so far, thread winner, I'd say.

Indeed.

It's photos like these that are not in Barack Obama's best interest to see published, New York Times.

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Remember the days of unabashed, media-encouraged George Bush hatreds?

Victor Davis Hansen...

A Good Man.

For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind — and was only partially coming-to in November 2010.

During the years of insanity, Al Gore won both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award for his propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth — before the disclosures of ClimateGate, new data on everything from the Himalayan glaciers to polar bear populations, realization that temperatures had not risen in the last 12 years, and the rather blatant and various money-making schemes of Gore, Inc. (that parlayed green advocacy into a billion-dollar, medieval exemption/carbon offset empire, several homes, and a propensity for carbon spewing private jet travel). Give Gore credit: he understood brilliantly that anger over Iraq and Katrina, his own popular vote victory in 2000 but subsequent lost presidency, his vein-bulging “he lied” screeds, and puppy dog pouts had combined, in perfect storm fashion, to locate Gorism at the nexus of anti-war, anti-Bush madness.

In these years of insanity, I used to be asked on-campus questions, but delivered as lectures, along the lines of “Bush’s polluting pals are ruining the planet when we know Al Gore’s cap and trade would save us. Now it’s too late!” Of course, in 2006 gasoline was relatively cheap, unemployment low, and there was growth in the economy. College students had the luxury of declaiming how George Bush had wiped out the polar bears as they waited for several good job offers.

Do you remember the hysteria over the supposed trampling of the Constitution? Those were the days of anger when Harold Koh, instead of writing briefs defending the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing by Predators and bypassing the War Powers Act in Libya, had been suing various Bush-Clinton-Bush administrations over the unfortunate at Guantanamo. At one time or another, a Sean Penn, a Hollywood producer (Rendition, Redacted, In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, etc.), a Whoopi Goldberg, a David Letterman, and legions more were all claiming that we had lost our freedoms to the satanic George Bush. These were the glory days of Dick Durbin comparing U.S. servicemen to mass killers, as John Kerry claimed they were quasi terrorists, in Harry Reid’s “lost” war, committing John Murtha’s war crimes — to the chorus of Michael Moore (guest of honor at the 2004 Democratic Convention) cheering on their killers as “minutemen.”

Yes, VDH, but I’d push the beginnings of Pure and Evil Lefty Hatreds back to at least 2000, beginning soon after George Bush defeated that mentally-challenged Tennessean (who lost Tennessee) Al Gore. Hell, take it all the way back to 1968, to Johnson’s ‘Great Society’, but increasing exponentially this past couple decades.

Recall, too, this...

In those days of “civility,” Bush hatred soon became a liberal creed. “Nuclar” (I don’t find such a tongue-twisted pronunciation as grievous as “corpse-man,” which reflects phonetic ignorance rather than clumsiness) was the stuff of NPR vignettes. Books came out about killing Bush; comics joked about his death. The Guardian ran an op-ed in which the writer longed for the return of John Wilkes Booth. Bush and Cheney as the Nazis or brownshirts or fascists was evoked by everyone from Al Gore and John Glenn to Garrison Keillor and George Soros.

There's none of that going on now. Remember the media - Lefty furor over the 'Obama Joker' poster? The hatred against g00gle for allowing pictures of M'chelle Obama segued with a monkey? There was no organized push-back against the Bush haters; instead, it seems they were encouraged...

The British were told to write Ohioans to stop the Bush coup in the 2004 election. Moving to Canada should Kerry lose (promises, promises) was a Hollywood boast. In these days before the BP spill, and assorted later disasters, Katrina was a mad Bush plot to disenfranchise people of color. Barney Frank was pontificating about the vendetta against Fannie and Freddie, as Maxine Waters et al. blasted scrutiny of the brilliant Franklin Raines, even as he prepared to walk away with tens of millions in “bonuses” after helping to wreck the American mortgage industry.

We forget now that the Bush administration (under which nearly 50% of the population was exempted from income tax and under which home ownership reached new highs) was pegged as some right-wing monstrosity that nonetheless caved and gave us No Child Left Behind, a prescription drug plan, and had allowed the liberal congressional cadre to turn mortgages into entitlements. Finally Bush was reduced to enlisting Bono to prove that he really did give billions in relief to Africa — even as the latter trashed him to the Left as the philanthropist schemed to avoid paying taxes to his soon-to-be-broke Irish homeland.

"Yeah, well, PRESENT!"

Read the rest, remember the LeftLibProgg's reactions to George Bush (truly a Good Man, comparatively speaking).


Oh, and what really ices the Left? Barack Hussein Obama, growing up to be, as they've noticed, much like...George Bush.

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Rolling Blunder vs. Rolling Thunder (and other 1,000-word comparisons)

Too good not to post and link.

From Don Surber's (h/t pw's commentariat)...

Says it all.

Linked in the comments at Surber's, from "Oregon Catalyst dot com"...

 George Bush flew a Starfighter. Baracky can't pilot an umbrella.

...and from 'Spedunkie' (there's more photos at the link...)

Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and some queen hanging curtains. NTTAWWT.

I'm beginning to understand why this country is so screwed up. Top down, don't you see?

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

1) Interrogation file of Abu Faraj al-Libi...

h/t SlashDot

2)Transcript, Leon Panetta speaking to Brian Williams, 5/3/11...

NBC NEWS - NIGHTLY NEWS - 5/3/11


INTERVIEW WITH LEON PANETTA

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BRIAN WILLIAMS:
10:47:31:00 I'd like to ask you about the sourcing on the intel that ultimately led to this successful attack. Can you confirm that it was-- as a result of water boarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after Bin Laden?

LEON PANETTA:
10:47:53:00 It-- you know, Brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here. We had a multiple source-- a multiple series of-- sources that provided information with regards to the situation. Clearly some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees but we also had information from other sources as well.
10:48:18:00 From Sigent intelligence, from imagery, from other sources that we had-- assets on the ground. And it was a combination of all of that that ultimately we were able to put together that led us to that compound. So-- it's-- it's a little difficult to say it was due just to one source of information that we got.

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
10:48:36:00 Turned around the other way, are you denying that water boarding was, in part, among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to this successful mission?

LEON PANETTA:
10:48:48:00 No, I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees. But I'm also saying that, you know, the debate about whether-- whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question.

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
10:49:07:00 So finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation techniques, which has always been kind of a handy euphemism in these post-9/11 years. That-

LEON PANETTA:
10:49:16:00 Right.

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
10:49:17:00 --in-- includes water boarding?

LEON PANETTA:
10:49:20:00 That's correct.

3) Thanks!, Leon! Glad to hear you admit it. And after all the BOOOOOOOOSH! trashing that went on for years, turns out he's been right all along.

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Pakistanis, others, question bin Laden's death; and Credit is Due to Bush and Cheney

Not so many here in the US, but look no further than those hotbeds of already-strange religious beliefs (Pakistan and the other Islamic nations) to hear questions, denials, anger, and rage.

I can understand where they're coming from. They've had this hero, this 'Superman', who struck at the heart of the kuffar, killing thousands - which is OK for Islamicists if you are a 'good enough' Muslim and have read the Koran correctly; many clerics and Imams and other Islamic rage-zealots read and apply the Koran for purposes of mind-controlling lower beasts, and they've succeeded in capturing many simple, uneducated minds, turning them into easily-lead packs of dogs - and now, all of a sudden, some Navy Seals apply Kryptonite .223 to Usama's head? No way, they say! You are faking this! This is an elaborate Hollywood stage set, and our Usama is still in the hills, coming back to lead us again against the kuffar!

I know we got him. Just as I know George Bush did not strike against the World Trade Center on 9/11, and I know that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii, son of a dirty socialist and a confuzzled, raging mother. Just as I know that Scott Walker had never met the Koch brothers, and those Wisconsin Democrat Senator fleebaggers wound up with bedbug bites on their cowardly asses.

So, what should we have do to quell these 'deather' beliefs? There is no 'death certificate' that these Pakistanis and other Islamicists will believe. We did leave behind women and children, at that stinking compound; 9 children are now in Pakistani police custody. Maybe they know something of the man ignominiously shot in the head, carried off in a helicopter on a ride to parts unknown, and dumped in the drink as a treat for crabs. We have photos? Please! easily doctored, you know that. They won't believe those. We have DNA samples? So? Where's the body? Oh, you buried it according to Muslim customs, eh? So you say! Why would you do that, if this man you say you shot was OUR Usama, Usul, the base of our pillar of hatred against the Western devils?

We should have paraded his corpse around every world capital. Or, had a proper 'at-sea' burial, having invited and picked up a delegation of Islamabad's best: clerics, imams, the town 'mayor', some assorted butt-hurt Pakistani military leaders, carted them to the Carl Vinson and let them watch the Feeding of the Crabs. They could go back and swear to...what, exactly? That the guy was definitely Osama bin Laden? Or just a nice waxwork created in Hollywood?

Calling Joseph Heller, code-word Catch-22. This is an emergency.

Oh, this photo from the NYT (accompanying the best story I've seen: even the NYT has to acknowledge that the information we needed to run this SpecOp originated in Guantanamo, on waterboarding slabs (thanks!, Dick Cheney, George Bush, for making this all possible!).

Barack Hussein Obama deserves credit for allowing this SpecOp to go forward. He wasn't a coward like most Democrats; pulling the plug at the last minute (are you listening, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton?); he allowed this to happen. But it happened IN SPITE of his holding office, not BECAUSE he was in office. And, if he had kept to his promises to his LeftLibProgg base, none of this would have happened: because he lied to far-left Democrats, because he stayed the course set by George Bush and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove and kept Guantanamo open, kept a strong military operation going on in Afghanistan, we were FINALLY able to get this Osama bin Bastard.

Now, BHO'll do victory laps; trying to keep all the credit for himself, to boost his 2012 re-election bid. But we know who is really behind this happy outcome.

Becoming an instant 'military hero' doesn't change anything at all: BHO's dirty socialistic beliefs are still in place in his mind, and won't be going anywhere. I won't care that he allowed this outcome come November 2012, because by then, it'll be All About the Economy, Stupid. Gas prices are too high; the Misery Index, comprised of inflation and unemployment, all of that awaits this President come November 2012. Chickens waiting to come home to roost.

So take your laps, small(est) man.

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Osama bin Laden assumes room temperature

Great news, a long time in coming.

Word is out (Jake Tapper via the Twitter, h/t Ernst Schreiber) that Unites States Navy Seals delivered the kill shot.

Good riddance. Dance, al-Qaeda monkeys, DANCE!

Oh, this, a blast from the past. A radio station ran this prior to our initial strike on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Enjoy!

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